Kuwait City: US soldiers model their new robes as they wait to head home after exiting from Iraq at Camp VirginiaPhotograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesManagua, Nicaragua: Hens on sale at the Oriental market Photograph: Oswaldo Rivas/ReutersBoston, Massachusetts: A participant in the annual Santa Speedo Run makes his way between carsPhotograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
Rio de Janeiro: People pray and sing during the Promessas gospel music festivalPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APNantes, France: People watch as a piano is thrown with a catapult during a Royal de Luxe street theatre performancePhotograph: Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP/Getty ImagesMoscow: Participants rally in Bolotnaya Square against violations at the parliamentary electionsPhotograph: Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty ImagesVoynitsa, Bulgaria: A goat walks in a deserted school classroom in the heart of Bulgaria's northwestern region, officially the poorest region in the EUPhotograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty ImagesKinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A riot policeman dismantles a roadblock after election violencePhotograph: Emmanuel Braun /ReutersAlmaty, Kazakhstan: A tame golden eagle lands on a man during an annual hunting competition Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/ReutersBeijing, China: A blind man plays an erhu instrument as he busks on a streetPhotograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty ImagesSandpoint, Idaho: The moon casts a reddish hue over Lake Pend Oreille during a lunar eclipsePhotograph: Matt Mills McKnight/ReutersKarachi, Pakistan: A man assembles the hull of a wooden boat at a shipyard in Fish HarbourPhotograph: Akhtar Soomro/ReutersThe Vatican: A woman holds a figurine of Baby Jesus as Pope Benedict XVI leads the Sunday Angelus prayer in St Peter's SquarePhotograph: Tony Gentile/ReutersBucharest, Romania: A masked man rests after performing during a traditional fair for Christmas and New Year celebrations at the Village MuseumPhotograph: Bogdan Cristel/ReutersJiangcheng county, China: A villager shows his painted ox on a stage during a bull-painting contest. The local tradition of bull painting originates from a Hani tale, which says painting a bull will scare away tigersPhotograph: AP
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